.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its own number of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site. Hatch position is booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA material through a wide array of systems, including social networking sites.Once aboard, the trio will sign up with Expedition 71 crew members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly spend about 6 months aboard the orbital outpost evolving medical research study as Expedition 71/72 crew participants prior to going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Expedition 72, 2 new teams will certainly get here aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission and also receive the most recent space station staff information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more about International Spaceport station study and operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Leah CheshierJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.